After the dust settled, they looted the area, and scouted around. They found the loot of what presumably would be the scanderig’s lair – it looks like another small adventuring party met its fate here. They took the loot to sell or use, as it would do better in their hands than their enemies.

Finding a new hallway, they caught on quick to the giant double doors with a sihedron on them. They referred back to the Writ of Access and Entry they received from the Monk, and read aloud the password given, “Vivosanxi”. They were able to open the doors just fine, however were greeted with a fireball , followed by a “ohmigosh I’m so sorry I thought you were Mokmurian, I was planning my revolt!”

Zaki, Dov’s old childhood rival from his tribe, was for whatever reason holed up here in an ancient library. He helped the party learn about the remaining area here, and the librarian introduced them to the subject matters at hand. They learned much about Karzoug and Xin’Shalast, among other very valuable topics to the party. Zaki was originally asked to help with the fight against Mokmurian, but was afraid that he would be too fragile to assist. They took a moment to prepare themselves against Mokmurian before heading out in the direction Zaki recommended…

The rogue in the party eventually were able to get into position, and knock the golem down. The group fiddled and debated about what to do with the cauldron, while Dov and Naolexa stayed out of the smoke. Unfortunately, a creature they had not seen before decided this was the best opportunity to ambush the party. A Scanderig, known to swim through the earth and eat minerals, appeared right behind the casters. Yama rushed in while the rest decided to escape. Yama got lucky when the Scanderig accidentally blinded itself, allowing Yama to tear it to shreds.

Yama joined up with the group at the entrance to the next room, where undead were detected by Valtyra. Yama rushed in again, getting a view of the room. He saw a headless statue come to life, and sprinted straight towards it. He attempted to jump up on top of the creature, but failed as an ax came crashing down on him. He took some hefty blows from the Headless Lord, but Yama fell him before going down. The other statues in the room had already animated at this point, surrounding Yama. While Yama did go under at one point, his resiliency took into effect, allowing him to get some healing before continuing on his spree. They handled these targets with ease, despite Yama almost losing his life.

The party decided to return to the hostages in Conna's Altar room after scooping up all of the leftover equipment from their fallen foes. Despite being very overloaded, Philip, Naolexa, and Dov got everyone in the safety of Magnimar. They sold their spoils, and took a few days to themselves to gear up, wind down, and prepare themselves mentally for what was ahead.

Greyfeather, Ameiko, and Shayliss all returned to Sandpoint unharmed, confirmed by a messenger raven to and from Sandpoint. The town of Sandpoint is recovering from the attack while the heroes are away, and luckily, Balor has reported that nothing major has happened since the raid. it's been luckily very quiet.

After visiting not only the markets, but the newly discovered black markets in the underbelly of Magnimar, our Heroes were able to find a few new fun toys to use against their foes. They returned to Jorgenfist at the dawn of the third day, and are ready for a fight.

This new room the heroes stood was of different nature then the hallway they were just in. The walls were of stone, the ceiling rose so high it disappeared into the darkness, and two massive columns stood on either side of a massive stone door adorned with a sihedron. The ground rumbled for a moment, as an oread rose from the floor near the door. The ogre king leaped down from the sky to meet the heroes toe to toe, while from behind two ogre barbarians followed in suit with wolves. Things were going to get sticky fast.

Yama went to approach the oread, but found himself quickly hindered by unseen complications on the floor. He backed himself up, and then leaped as far as he could towards the oread in attempts to bypass the unknown hindrance. He succeeded in landing close enough to her, and managed to wound her. Naolexa followed up with a spell to blind her, which caused her to preemtively use a spell against Yama. She grabbed a sapphire out of a particular pocket on her person, and unleashed a powerful cold spell that hit Yama hard. Despite being blind, she was still able to unleash the same spell afflicting her against Yama, as she blinded him as well. The two attempted to trade blows and spells, and also escape from each other as best as possible. The eventually found themselves relying on a column to rotate around, but Yama accidentally hit one of the columns hard with his daggers, causing a crack on his dagger.

Meanwhile, the others dealt with a heavy onslaught from the ogres. The Ogre King has summoned not only a floating battleaxe to swipe and pester Philip, and a succubus to deal with Vincent and Valtyra. The succubus succeeded in dominating Vincent's mind, as she then used his blade against Philip and his allies. He eventually got control of his mind, but not until some attacks had already occurred against his friends. Philip managed to get a polymorph spell off on the ogre king, which turned him into a harmless otter. Unfortunately, he was able to stave of the section of the magic that prevent him from losing his mental capacities, so now a otter king terrorized the heroes. He lost sight of what he was for a moment, as he rushed up to Naolexa to attempt a strike. This failed miserably, as he ended up not being used to his new limbs just yet, narrowly missing Naolexa.

They eventually were able to kill off the succubus, a wolf, and one of the barbarians when Naolexa found herself in trouble. She was pinned inbetween the now otter king, one of the barbarians, and the succubus. With no where to run, the barbarian crashed his greataxe against her. She fell to the ground for a moment, but something activated inside her as she was lifted up, and set on the ground as if she had not taken as much damage. When the otter king retreated to attempt to dispel the polymorph effect, Shalelu followed up with arrows that pelted the ogre that struck Naolexa down. This provided an opportunity for Naolexa to Dimension Door to escape, giving her a chance to heal. Philip followed as well, as he was bruised up by the ogre king's spiritual weapon and the attacks from Vincent.

The ogre king dispelled the polymorph effect, while the oread, Erdu, dispelled the blinding effect. Now able to see, Yama had disspeared completely from sight. She used the chance to heal a little bit, before attempting to dominate Dov, who had mysteriously appeared. This failed, and Dov encased her in a icy prison in retaliation.

The ogre king and the barbarians eventually fell, Erdu succumbed to the icy grasp of Dov's spell, and healing was distributed all around. The heroes looted what they could, and decided to camp in this large room for the night to rest and recover before proceeded. Using the staff again, Philip sealed off the way they came from to prevent any surprises from behind them. They intended to use Naolexa's and Dov's magical items to keep the amount of sleep needed to a minimum, so they would not tarry in this task any further.

Before them, the Sihedron Door still remained closed, but what lie behind it's doors? Knowledge? Death? Answers?

After looting the ogres and getting past the wall, the group had two tunnels to choose from; the mist filled one, or another tunnel that lead to a darker area. Reiner decided to lead the group through the mist-filled tunnel. About halfway through it, however, Vincent remembered a spell, and dispelled the mist, revealing the next intersection. To the left, the other entrance to the room where our Heroes fought the Lamia. To the right, the start of a hallway with furs lining the sides.

Vincent immediately was wary of the furs, and suggested that they be burned. After the party decided it would be a waste of resources, the started down the hall. After reaching a point, a ranseur burst through the walls, attacking Reiner. As the fur fell, Reiner caught a quick glimpse of a troll behind the wall, using a small slot in the wall to attack through. He warned the rest of the group, but it was too late for Malia and Valtyra, as they also received unexpected blows through the furs.

They had to act fast, and the only way to get through the mess was to get past the wall of furs and around the corner. Reiner, Malia, Valtyra, and Nevik all progressed as quickly as possible through the area. Vincent, Naolexa, Shalelu, and Philip all used Dimension Door to teleport through the hall and to a safe section. Philip quickly used his staff to move the stone wall to close off the tunnel that one of them was in. Nevik worked his way quickly to the other tunnel to deal with the threat there. After making quick work of him, Nevik discovered a treasure chest, which he gathered up and showed the party.

However, Philip had his gaze set on a statue that was on the wall of a three-eyed jackal. As he stared, he saw it twist and contort to look at him directly. It shouted "FOOLS!" While only Philip saw the statue moved, everyone heard the noise.